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In the last chart of 1998, I posted my Top 50 singles of the year, pickingout the Top 10 first. During 1999, I’ll be going through the list one by onestarting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.
This week : 11 new entries, 2 climbers, 0 non-movers & 27 downers.CHART TIME !
(* – my current favourites)
(!!! – Single Of The Week!!!)
(:O === the current all-time hate that makes even my smilie want to hurl!)
( (R) – Repeat., ie. a re-release)
A brief analysis on the current chart situation…
11 new entries:
I’d never heard a Les Rhythmes Digitales track before this, partly having beenput off with a poster I’d seen for the album featuring someone who looked likeactor Brendan Fraser having a bad hair day.
Then a few days ago I heard this on Radio 2 of all places, but they never saidwho it was (AAARGH! I HATE IT WHEN A RADIO STATION DOES THAT!), but I couldtell it was Nik Kershaw singing “Sometimes” a lot and I thought it was one ofhis recent solo songs which criminally flopped yet again. He hasn’t done wellsince the release of his “Radio Musicola” album. I remember that spent 4 weeksin the Network chart before dropping out of the Top 75, but the tape didn’tleave my walkman for months.
Seeing this in the charts now I ought to check out Les Rhythmes Digitales’album, but it’s a shame it hasn’t had any airplay elsewhere as it could havebeen a big hit, even if it sounds more like an album track than a high-profilesingle and it could have rejuvinated the career of Mr. Kershaw.
28 Cast – Magic Hour25 Culture Club – Your Kisses Are Charity
Both of these are follow-up singles to recent hits, but they’re both so dulland boring. Why? Was no-one listening when they played it back?
15 Dope Smugglaz – Double Double DutchThose around 16 years ago will remember that offbeat Sex Pistols guru MalcolmMcLaren had his biggest solo hit ever when “Double Dutch” made No.3 in July1983, a song based on a type of skipping competition that went on to featurein the Olympics.
Now we get a remix. It was fine when I first heard it as I thought it wasMcLaren doing something himself, but then I found it’s just another cheesyone-off dance band with fuck-all where their ideas should be. Rasp!
3 (4) DJ Jurgen presents Alice Deejay – Better off Alone *This is one of those dance tunes, like ATB’s “9pm (Till I Come)”, which focusesmore on the tune than the lyrics and also a tune that I’ve heard many-a-timewithout knowing who it was, but then telling me wouldn’t have made much impactanyway.
A combination of a dance beat, minimal lyrics and a tune that sounds like acar alarm on the fritz and you’re all set for a Top 5 hit.
1 Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All :O === *1st Week at No.1*First solo single for the Boyzone frontman and it’s one of the love themesfrom the popular Hugh Grant film, Notting Hill, another being Elvis Costello’srecording of “She”, and it’s clear that Ronan’s looking for a solo careerin the way that he’s launched a single on his own, is looking to present TVseries, with one already under his belt, and he’s branching out on his own asmanager to another Oirish band, Westlife, even if all that he’s doing iscomplete crap.
This is the 21st single to go straight in at No.1.
If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know
July 26th :Air Le Soleil Est Pres De MoiAir Sexy BoyAir Kelly Watch The StarsAlain Braxe VertigoAllnighters Black Is BlackAloof Doing It For MoneyAnimal House Animal House EPAntenna Come On SpringAphrodite Woman That RollsAtlantis See You In The Next LifeBanaczech Zlin & BackBuffalo Bunch Buffalo ClubBuffalo Bunch T.I.T.S.Calc Not InvolvedCast Magic HourCulture Club Your Kisses Are CharityDaft Punk Da Funk/MusiqueDaft Punk Burnin’Daft Punk Around The World (M.A.W. remixes)Dawn Of The Replicants Science FictionDay One Waiting For A BreakDe-Ryus Grass Aint GreenerDisposable Disco Dubs Disposable Disco DubsDJ Falcon Hello My Name Is DJ FalconDJ Sneak vs Le Knight Club Intergalactic DiscoDoolally Straight From The HeartDope Smugglaz Double Double DutchDyewitness What Would You Like To Hear AgainFAB! Love Is A BattlefieldFierce So LongFisher, Cevin Music Saved My LifeGay Dad Oh JimGroove Armada At The RiverHyperlogic U Got The LoveHyperlogic Only Me 98I:Cube Disco Cubizm (Daft Punk remix)Judy Speedway DivaJupiter Her DesireKeating, Ronan When You Say Nothing At AllKitachi Boost DemKonflict CyanideLe Knight Club TroubadourLe Knight Club Boogie ShellLe Knight Club Santa ClausLes Rhythmes Digitales SometimesMarvin & Tamara Groove MachineMaxim My WebMeccaheads DJ TuneMishka LonelyMorrighan Remember (To The Millenium)Paul Johnson White WindsPet Shop Boys I Don’t Know What You Want (12″)Phatts & Small Feel GoodPicotto, Mauro PulsarPlanet Perfecto Feat. Grace Not Over Yet ’99Pretenders PopstarPuff Daddy PE 2000Richard, Cliff The MiracleRoberts, Juliet No One Can Love You MoreRomanthony Hold OnRoy Davis Jr. Rock ShockScritti Politti Tinseltown To Boogietown (12″)Shazz Pray (Bob Sinclar Remix)Signum What Ya Got 4 MeSignum What Ya Got 4 MeSketch RookieSkunk Ananasie LatelySpace Raiders (I Need The) Disko DoktorStardust Music Sounds Better With YouStaton, Candi Young Hearts Run FreeSteve Blake ExpressionSuper Discount Le Patron Est DevenuSuper Discount Affaires A FaireSuper Discount 10 Jours FousSuper Discount Super DiscoThomas Bangalter Trax On Da RocksThomas Bangalter Spinal ScratchThomas Bangalter Trax On Da Rocks 2Toploader Let The People KnowTravis Why Does It Always Rain On MeTronix Night SafeUK Gold Nuclear ShowerUK Gold Nuclear ShowerUltrasound Aire & CalderUntidy Dubs Untidy Dubs 3Various Artists Album Sampler 1Various Artists Album Sampler 2Van Eyden, Woody Get Ready 2nd August :A I Love Lake TahoeBasement Jaxx Rendez-VuBig Country/Eddie Reader Fragile ThingBlackstreet Think About YouBran Van 3000 Drinkin In LABreakbeat Era Ultra ObsceneCaprice Oh YeahCassius FoxyChemical Brothers Let Forever BeDubtribe Sound System EquitorealEclipse Makes Me Love YouEminem Featuring Dr Dre Guilty ConscienceFixed Stars Here Comes The MusicKatcha Touched By GodMedal Porno SongMike & The Mechanics Whenever I StopMonica Angel Of MineMorisson, Mark & Conner My Best FriendReevesMullins, Shawn ShimmerNas You Won’t See Me TonitePandy, Daryl Sunshine & HappinessPearl Jam Last KissPlacebo Feat. David Bowie Without You I’m NothingShack Natalie’s PartySneaker Pimps Low FiveThrillseekers SynaesthesiaTQ Better DaysUgly Duckling Everybody C’mon 9th August :Add N To X Revenge Of The Black RegentAll Blue PrisonerAmbassador The FadeAquasky Bulletproof (remix)Aswad Follow’99ATB Don’t StopBenet, Eric Spend My Life With YouBrown, Jennifer AliveCrawford, Billy Mary LopezDivine Comedy Pop Singers Fear The PollenGarnier, Laurent Sound Of The Big BobouGinuwine Same Ol’ GGrooves, Scott/Parliament Mothership ReconnectionHalliwell, Geri Mi Chico LatinoKravitz, Lenny American WomanLimp Bizkit NookieMartin, Billy Ray HoneyOrzox, Tommy My DesireSuper Furry Animals Fire In My HeartWestlife If I Let You Go 16th August :All Seeing I 1st Man In SpaceApollo 440 Stop The RockBen & Jason EmoticonsBinary Finary 1999Brand New Heavies Saturday NightHepburn BugsLuhrman, Baz When Doves CryMercury Rev Goddess On A Hi WayNine Yards Always Find A WayOrton, Beth Central ReservationSalt N Pepa Gitty UpTexas Summer SonTin Tin Out 11 To FlyTLC UnprettyToutes Les Filles Thats What Love Can DoUnderworld King Of SnakeYazoo Only You 23rd August :A Teens Mama MiaAdams, Bryan Inside OutAmira My DesireArab Strap CherubsAyla AylaBamboo BamboogieBig Room Girl Raise Your HandsBuck Cherry Lit UpCamisra Let Me Show YouCamisra Feel The BeatCandy Girls Fee Fi Fo FumCandy Girls Wham BamCosmos Summer In SpaceCrow, Sheryl Sweet Child O’MineEthics La LunaHeartists Belo HorizontiLa’s, The There She GoesLeftfield Afrika Shox/Phat PlanetLlama Farmers YellowMcCutcheon Martine I Got YouOcean Colour Scene I Am The NewsRaissa Walk Right ThroughShrink Nervous BreakdownSixpence None The Richer There She GoesStereophonics I Wouldn’t BelieveSuede Everything Will FlowSummer Daze Samba MagicSylvian, David God ManTall Paul Rok Da HouseThunderbugs Friends ForeverTin Tin Out All I Wanna DoTin Tin Out Dance With MeTin Tin Out Strings For JasminTin Tin Out Here’s Where The Story EndsYounger Younger 28’s Next Big Thing 30th August :95 North The RequestHell CopaJamiroquai SupersonicRegular Fries Dust It (Don’t Bust it)Supergrass Movin’Twain, Shania Man I Feel Like A Woman 6th September :Cole, Andy OutstandingJones, Tom TBCRoss, Diana Not Over You Yet 13th September :Everything But The Girl Five Fathoms 20th September :Bowie, David TBCC, Melanie TBCThis week there are new entries for
Dominator’s Top 50 of 1998
32. Lenny Kravitz: If You Can’t Say NoLenny Kravitz came to the fore in 1990 with the exceptional single andalbum, “Let Love Rule”, but apart from the occasional hit such as “It Ain’tOver Til It’s Over” and “Are You Gonna Go My Way” in the early 90’s, the publichave largely ignored Lenny’s music until earlier this year when “Fly Away”made No.1 after being used in a car advert.
The current album “5” charted at No.18 in May last year and has done bettersince the top-slot hit, but the first two singles, which missed the Top 40,were the hypnotic “If You Can’t Say No” (No.48, May 98) and followed up by”I Belong To You” (No.75, October 98).
The end bit :
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Bye for now,
Dominator
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.